It's been a little slow around here

Updates are hard to do when there's almost no news on the gold front.  Once patch 4.3 hits the PTR, this will change. With patch 4.3 scheduled to be released within 3 months or so, the PTR is bound to be up soon(ish).

Until then, it's all gems and glyphs and the same old same old.

This week in MySales

I haven't done one of these for a while, so I thought it was about time to get back in the swing of things.

There are quite a few gems on the list, thanks to new 4.2 gear.  Glyph of Unleashed Lightning has been a steady seller around the 300g mark.  I'm trying to dump my Darkmoon Faire single cards now before the bottom completely falls out of them.  Honestly, I forgot I had any at all until I was looking through my paladins personal bank, which I rarely use for anything that I would sell.  Volatile Earth prices are starting to come back down to...earth.  Demand is still there, just not like it was a few weeks ago.  I can see the price rising again, but time will tell.

Dust of Disappearance is a champ, what can I say?

I've got a feeling next weeks report is going to look a lot different.

Gold Cap, nice to meet you

It's been a long journey for me, a little under a year or so, but the moment has finally arrived.

From last few months of Wrath, milling herbs like mad, preparing for the impending Glyphmas, to the first weeks of patch 4.2, I've made my first million gold.  I want to thank all the farmers bringing the ore and herbs to the auction house.  Without them, this wouldn't have been possible.

In other news, it's freakin hot.  I'm not leaving the house if I can help it, so I might get some serious gold making done.  My disenchanting is falling behind again, so I'll be working on that.  Celestial Essence prices are up, and so are Heavenly Shards.  It's time to capitalize.

The one where I show off my wallet

Not much new here.  Selling tons of gems still, the new pvp gear kind of fell flat, but the good thing about having so many characters is if something doesn't sell, at least one of my alts can use it.  Anyway, there is this little screenshot...

I think this is the first time I've gotten up to 900k, so it's pretty exciting.  Closing in on that million mark!

My project for the blog is taking a little longer than I first though, but it should be finished soon.  Keep watching!

Alts, Ideally

It's like this...with gold!

The topic for this month's Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival is creating your own ideal alt.  For me, alts are all about professions.  But there's so many to choose from?  Which professions would I want, and on what character?

For starters, there's the miner/herbalist.  Obvious choice is obvious.  Ever since Blizzard allowed you to track ore and herb nodes at the same time, this has been a very popular profession combo.  You could even add in Archeology to the mix and sell the keystones that you find.  Or just use them to grind out whatever item you want from that hellish profession.  I don't much care for archeology, or flying around in circles in general for that matter.  If I had one of these alts, it would have to be a druid though.  Not shifting from flight form to pick herbs is retarded OP.

A Deathknight enchanter would rank on my list of ideal alts.  DKs can steamroll dungeons up to at least Wrath level easily.  All you have to do is pick a dungeon that drops items that disenchant into the dust/essence/shard that you desire and go to town.  As much as I hate farming ore/herbs, I love going back and revisiting old dungeons and raids.  What can I say?  I loves me some nastalgia.  I actually had this alt for a while, until I decided I needed a third alchemist.

I'm very certain this last one is also popular.  Jewelcrafting/Enchanting.  I have these two professions, yes.  But they are on seperate characters,and it wastes a fair bit of time mailing things around for The Shuffle.  If I had it to do all over again, my jewelcrafter would be an enchanter to boot.  I have to say that would be ideal for me.

As it stands right now, I have a fairly good alt for my playstyle though.  Jewelcrafter/Inscriptionist.  Most of my purchases of ore and herbs get prospected and milled, so I can spend most of my "goblin time" on this character.  I can browse the AH for deals on other items while processing the raw materials.  It's not optimal, but it works.

What about you?  What would you say is your ideal alt?